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Self-attention has emerged as a core component of modern neural architectures, yet its theoretical underpinnings remain elusive. In this paper, we study self-attention through the lens of interacting entities, ranging from agents in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Muhammed Ustaomeroglu , Guannan Qu

The attention mechanism is the computational core of modern Transformer architectures, but its quadratic complexity in the input sequence length is the bottleneck for large-scale inference. This has motivated a rapidly growing body of work…

Attention mechanisms in deep neural networks have achieved excellent performance on sequence-prediction tasks. Here, we show that these recently-proposed attention-based mechanisms---in particular, the Transformer with its parallelizable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Zhengxuan Wu , Xiyu Zhang , Tan Zhi-Xuan , Jamil Zaki , Desmond C. Ong

Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) has attracted growing interest at the intersection of medical image understanding and natural language processing for clinical applications. By interpreting medical images and providing precise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Zhilin Zhang , Jie Wang , Zhanghao Qin , Ruiqi Zhu , Xiaoliang Gong

The quadratic computation complexity of self-attention has been a persistent challenge when applying Transformer models to vision tasks. Linear attention, on the other hand, offers a much more efficient alternative with its linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Dongchen Han , Xuran Pan , Yizeng Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

The recurrent neural networks (RNN) can be used to solve the sequence to sequence problem, where both the input and the output have sequential structures. Usually there are some implicit relations between the structures. However, it is hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Feng Wang , David M. J. Tax

More and more evidence has shown that strengthening layer interactions can enhance the representation power of a deep neural network, while self-attention excels at learning interdependencies by retrieving query-activated information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yanwen Fang , Yuxi Cai , Jintai Chen , Jingyu Zhao , Guangjian Tian , Guodong Li

Recent advancements in attention mechanisms have replaced recurrent neural networks and its variants for machine translation tasks. Transformer using attention mechanism solely achieved state-of-the-art results in sequence modeling. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Prakhar Thapak , Prodip Hore

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) has demonstrated the superior performance in many challenging applications, including the few-shot learning tasks. Despite its powerful capacity to learn and generalize the model from few samples, GNN usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Hao Cheng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Wee Peng Tay , Bihan Wen

Several speech processing systems have demonstrated considerable performance improvements when deep complex neural networks (DCNN) are coupled with self-attention (SA) networks. However, the majority of DCNN-based studies on speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-24 Vinay Kothapally , John H. L. Hansen

The attention mechanism has been the core component in modern transformer architectures. However, the computation of standard full attention scales quadratically with the sequence length, serving as a major bottleneck in long-context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yusheng Zhao , Hourun Li , Bohan Wu , Yichun Yin , Lifeng Shang , Jingyang Yuan , Meng Zhang , Ming Zhang

Recent works on multi-modal emotion recognition move towards end-to-end models, which can extract the task-specific features supervised by the target task compared with the two-phase pipeline. However, previous methods only model the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yang Wu , Pai Peng , Zhenyu Zhang , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin

Attention has long been proposed by psychologists as important for effectively dealing with the enormous sensory stimulus available in the neocortex. Inspired by the visual attention models in computational neuroscience and the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Yichuan Tang , Nitish Srivastava , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Neural models that independently project questions and answers into a shared embedding space allow for efficient continuous space retrieval from large corpora. Independently computing embeddings for questions and answers results in late…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Yinfei Yang , Ning Jin , Kuo Lin , Mandy Guo , Daniel Cer

Attention mechanism has gained great success in vision recognition. Many works are devoted to improving the effectiveness of attention mechanism, which finely design the structure of the attention operator. These works need lots of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Shanshan Zhong , Wushao Wen , Jinghui Qin

Neural language models are becoming the prevailing methodology for the tasks of query answering, text classification, disambiguation, completion and translation. Commonly comprised of hundreds of millions of parameters, these neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Blaž Škrlj , Nika Eržen , Shane Sheehan , Saturnino Luz , Marko Robnik-Šikonja , Senja Pollak

Recently, the Transformer model that is based solely on attention mechanisms, has advanced the state-of-the-art on various machine translation tasks. However, recent studies reveal that the lack of recurrence hinders its further improvement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Jie Hao , Xing Wang , Baosong Yang , Longyue Wang , Jinfeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Tu

Many machine learning tasks such as multiple instance learning, 3D shape recognition, and few-shot image classification are defined on sets of instances. Since solutions to such problems do not depend on the order of elements of the set,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Juho Lee , Yoonho Lee , Jungtaek Kim , Adam R. Kosiorek , Seungjin Choi , Yee Whye Teh

Transformer-based deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance across numerous language and vision tasks. While the self-attention mechanism, a core component of transformers, has proven capable of handling complex data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Laziz Abdullaev , Tan M. Nguyen

Deep neural network models have shown a great potential in accelerating the simulation of fluid dynamic systems. Once trained, these models can make inference within seconds, thus can be extremely efficient. However, they suffer from a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-23 Wenhui Peng , Zelong Yuan , Jianchun Wang